Electric vehicles are rapidly growing in popularity as the number of different options has increased dramatically over the last couple of years and prices are beginning to move towards parity with internal combustion engine cars. But once all the carbon costs of extracting, processing and manufacturing are taken into account, how much lower is the overall lifetime carbon footprint of an EV compared to and ICE car? And for that matter, what’s the carbon footprint of all the other types of transport we use in modern society?
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Research Links
ICCT Research Paper
https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/Global-LCA-passenger-cars-jul2021_0.pdf
Visual Capitalist
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/comparing-the-carbon-footprint-of-transportation-options/
https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/a-lifetimes-consumption-of-fossil-fuels-visualized/
World Resources Institute report on China’s decarbonisation
https://www.wri.org/insights/how-china-can-cut-road-transportation-emissions?utm_campaign=wridigest&utm_source=wridigest-2022-07-13&utm_medium=email&utm_content=learnmore
ICCT – 5 things you thought you knew about EVs that are not quite true
Five things you know about electric vehicles that aren’t exactly true
China’s new energy policies
https://theicct.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/China-new-vehicle-industrial-dev-plan-jun2021.pdf
https://www.miit.gov.cn/jgsj/zbys/qcgy/art/2020/art_7eea943abda746339d899bd5fd520c92.html
https://en.ndrc.gov.cn/policies/202110/t20211027_1301020.html
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